Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Oh, Those Gods And Their Quirky Sense Of Humor!

1) We're only one week into what is probably going to be a three-plus week (factoring in the holidays) wait to find out anything about that damnable test, and I'm already feeling punchy about it;

2) I have the MOTHER OF ALL HEAD COLDS and cannot take anything to relieve the congestion and IT SUCKS;

3) Her Bad Father has the father of all head colds - his first head cold all year long - and even though he can take all those delicious anti-decongestant meds, he's still miserable and fully willing to bitch about it;

5) Wonderbaby has an eye infection, probably pink eye, and can't go to daycare and keeps emptying the few boxes that I manage to pack in my sick, miserable state;

6) Did I mention that we're moving? And that we're sick? And that Wonderbaby can't go to daycare and that she keeps unpacking my boxes and repacking them in her own, uniquely inefficient and exceedingly messy toddler fashion? (My bring boots to new house! My bring Toadstool! My bring juice! My bring diapers! My bring kitty!PUT IN BOX!My helping Mommy!)

(Those diapers that she packs? Not always, um, new diapers. Sometimes, they come right off her ass and straight into the box, right alongside the sippy cup, the boots and the cat.)

On the plus side, we do get a pretty new house. Also, we've been having rousing family discussions about penises and boobies and what goes into diapers, and that's always fun. Oh, and Wonderbaby's school pictures came in:

Please HORDE proofs and upload to Photoshop even if you plan on ordering EVERY available print in multiple.

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Track down some Olbas oil. Put six drops in a bowl of hot water. Put bowl on steady table. Sit on chair next to table. Put head over bowl and breathe in the fumes. Drape big bath towel over your head and the bowl and steam yourself for 10 - 20 minutes. Ensure that you have several loo rolls at arms reach to mop up the slime that will emerge.

Side benefit = clean skin.

Warming, sudden removal of several gallons of trapped slime may make you feel a little light headed because your head is lighter!Cheers

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I can feel your pain. I just went through all that. Sick with a sinus infection, moved into a new house and a 16 months old. As my sister always say "this too shall pass". It did but we moved a month ago and there are still tons of boxes that need to be emptied. I may just leave them for Bubbie to empty Christmas morning.Pics- so adorable!

we're sick, too. and the joy and hilarity of pregnant sick mommy and sick toddler boy... wow, there just aren't words.there are, however, so many words to describe those school photos of WB. OMG, is she beautiful and precious and delicious and gorgeous and...coy!we also move. in two weeks. good luck with your move, C. it'll all be over soon. right?

I also have a miserable head cold and can't take anything for it thanks to small # 2. My sympathies. I knew I was in trouble when I saw that Buckley's ad with all the people making the "that tastes awful" face and I was jealous of them for being able to have some.

Your packing experience sounds exactly like our packing experience back in May. Just wait 'til you get to the new house and start unpacking. You'll find treasures untold from Wonderbaby. And those pictures, by the way, are awesome.

GREAT pictures!! She's so cute.I just got over a head cold. It was horrible. I had a sinus infection and I did get a prescription (if you have time to go to a doctor!). Tylenol helps a bit. Can you hire movers to help you pack boxes?

oh HBM sure hope you feel well soon...yeah toddlers are so helpful aren't they stinkerbells new fave thing is to clean the bathroom sink with sopping wet toilet paper(its ok its water from tap!)and then rinse the paper down the drain arghhh its clogged and a beetch to clean out hahahaLAVANDULA

OMG. Um, someday you'll look back on this ... and, um ... wonder how you ever got through it? Yeesh.

And the WB is so FREAKING CUTE! Wow. Um, I should email you Munchkin's daycare photo. She looks like a baby hobo ("Baby Hobo!" she yells ...) because I forgot it was picture day, she's wearing ratty clothes, has wild hair, and there's a big trail of drool down the front of her shirt, she's slouching, and wrinkling her whole face up. So, pretty true to life :-)

OH MYYYY what a gorgeous little baby you have there. Holy moly, her eyes are SO pretty, and the pout, precious. I wish I could come and help you pack, I just got over my awful cold. I love cold medicine, and one day, you will have it again.

Good luck! I had a nasty sinus infection too with my last pregnancy and found a Netti pot (simple saline sinus flushing/irrigation) worked like a miracle. Pharmacies sell them now or a simple gentle pressure saline bottle designed for sinus irrigation. It worked for me and all my friends I showed.Consider it, it may take few flushings for the saline to clear out the cold but it works wonders, I use them at the first sniffle or sign of allergy season.Incredible how salt and water can work miracles.cheers

also, I've been reading and worrying and praying (in my own, non-religious-y way) for you and your new baby and your family. just haven't really been able to say anything profound or even semi-profound and, well, wanted you to know despite lack of profundity.

and the move sounds just about right. i.e., gross. I'm sorry. yuck.

but you have those photos, at least, and a box full of random, used diapers and boots. so there's that.

I'm so behind on all of my reading and commenting (we just moved, too).

I wanted to tell you that I had an abnormal triple screen when I was pregnant with my son...1 in 87 percent chance he had Downs, as opposed to the 1 in 357 (ish) percent chance that it should have been because of my age.

I was sick with worry; I had the amnio (which itself was a breeze). Waiting those two weeks was a nightmare...and I hardly believed it I got the word that all was fine.

I know you know that the likelihood that all is well with your li'l one is fine...like my OB said to me at the time 86 out of 87 times women with the values at my age turn out to have quote/unquote healthy babies.